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Deforestation in the Wunbaik Reserved Mangrove Forest (WRMF) (22,919ha) has been accelerating since the 1990s. This study focuses on the causes of deforestation and the changes in the livelihoods of the local people. Forty percent of the mangrove forest in the WRMF was lost from 1990 to 2011, when a shrimp pond and a paddy field, known as a ‘kari,’ were created and logging operations were initiated...